Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...issues of last week, took occasion to find fault with the methods pursued by some of the reporters of the Boston dailies in their accounts of recent accidents at Harvard. We think that this letter requires no comment, other than the remarks that the reports published in the Boston press were dressed in most glaring colors and had but a thin thread of truth running through them. We must again make a distinction between the legitimate gathering of news, and the sensational writing which too often is made to appear as the account of actual occurrences...
SENSATIONAL REPORTERS.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There is great complaint among the students in regard to the disreputable way in which college correspondents of the daily press "work up" for their own advantage and at the expense of truth, sensational reports of college happenings. Such was notoriously the case, to cite example, in regard to the so-called rush between '88 and '89, and recent explosion in College House. Only Thursday last we read how Memorial waiters "cut and slashed each other." All these cases are "written up," with little or no foundation in fact. Those who know anything about the college...
...remark was to the effect that there was too great a tendency to choose the "practical" courses in the curriculum; that men were thus in danger of losing the peculiar benefit which a college education is supposed to impart. Considering the fact that the slurs of the country press are aimed at a supposed tendency towards the choice of Fine Art, Natural History, Spanish and Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase of the subject which deserves more attention than it has ever received, and one which possesses the uncommon property...
...past two years Professor Laughlin has delivered lectures and written magazine articles on this subject, and the interest which they excited warranted him to publish the substance of his thought in permanent form, and the result is a little book, entitled "The Study of Political Economy," from the press of the Appletons...
...Princetonian calls for communications on the subject of cribbing and its correction. This is a subject in which the entire college press should unite. We join with the Princetonian and earnestly invite professors and students to increase the importance of the recent newspaper movement, by contributing to our columns. There should be a crusade, not only against cribbing, but against the entire marking system. The method used by Harvard is antiquated and wholly unsuited to the elective system. If all students elected the same subjects and were marked by the same professors, the injustice of the system would be greatly...